Cord-fastener



(No Model.)

' E. BRAYTON.

I CORD PASTENER. I 4

No. 301,558, 4 PatentedJuly 8, 1884.

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EDWARD BRAYTON, OF CEDAR RAPIDS, IOYVA.

CORD-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 301,558, dated July 8,1884.

Application filed March 25, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD Bnnv'ron, a citizen of theUnited States,residing at Cedar Rapids,in the county of Linn and State of Iowa, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Cord-Fasteners, of whichthe following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to render more expeditious and easy thefastening and unfastening of ropes, cords, straps, and the like; and theinvention consists in a fastener, to one end of which the cord ispermanently secured, and the other end is provided with a serratedcrotch or fork to retain the cord after passing around an intermediatelateral hook, which admits of a free movement of the cord in tightening, as will hereinafter more clearly appear.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,Figure l is a perspective of the invention wit-h the hook nearest thespectator, and Fig. 2 a reverse view of the same.

The invention is so simple that its construction and operation will bereadily seen by reference to the drawings. The fastener A is preferablyof metal, and provided at one end with a hole, in which one end of thecord B is secured. The opposite end of the fastener is bifurcated,leaving a wedge-shaped opening or crotch, c. On one of the members madeby this division is formed a hook, b, around which the cord is drawn, asshown, and fastened by drawing the free end into the crotch abovereferred to. i

To render the grip upon the cord certain and permanent, the crotch isserrated, the teeth inclining backward in the direction in which the endof the cord is drawn to fasten it. The teeth thus counteract thetendency of the cord to slip out of its place, while affording but aslight resistance to the operator when it becomes necessary to releasethe same;

The fastener admits of the cord being fastened much more quickly than bytying in the usual way, as but two motions are required, one being todraw the cord around the hook, and the other to press the loose end intothe crotch. It is even. more quickly released. It

ened more tightly than by tying. The hook, while retaining the cord,allows it to slip freely, and around this as a center the cord may bestrained to the utmost and the same tension sustained until it issecured by a downward sweep of the hand.

The difficulty of tying a cord drawn tightly about any body, andparticularly a hard, unyielding body, and the comparative slowness ofthe operation, are facts too well known to require particularization.

I am aware that it is not new to fasten a cord by drawing it into anotch in a piece of metal or Wood attached to the opposite end of thecord, andI do not claim this, broadly, as my invention; but I know of noother device that admits of the cord being tightened by pulling one endwithout the other end being fastened to the body to be bound or held byanother hand. Unlike other fasteners, this device may be operated almostentirely with one hand, the only use of another being to, keep thefastener in position until the cord is passed around the hook. In caseswhere the fastener is attached to the body to be tied as, for example, abag-the whole operation, including the passing of the cord around thehook, may be performed with one hand while the other is otherwiseengaged.

Having thus briefly described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A cord-fastener havinga cord permanently attached to one end, a lateralhook near the middle, which receives all the strain of the cord andallows it to slip freely in tightening, and a longitudinal serratedcrotch in the other end, in which the cordis pressed and held aftertaking a half-turn about the hook, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I afiir; my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDXVARD BRAYTON.

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